The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 109
I rely on the promises he has made me, and am resolved to follow his advice.”
Who acts: I, man · What happens: rely, make, resolve, follow · To what, where: me, advice
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 rely | nsubj |
| 2 | rely | rely | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 promises | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 promises | det |
| 5 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rely | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 promises | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resolved | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 resolved | cc |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 resolved | aux:pass |
| 13 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rely | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 resolved | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 advice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rely | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 rely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rely | present | I | on the promises | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | man | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | ||||
| 3 | resolve | present · passive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | I not said here | man's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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